“In July 1965, Lyndon Johnson chose to Americanize the war in Vietnam.” Although Johnson chose to have America enter the war, there were prior events that led to America entering and taking control of the war. The South Vietnamese were losing the war against communism, giving Johnson more reason to enter the war and allowing strong American forces to help stop communism. There were other factors that contributed to the entry into war; America helped assist the French in the war, Johnson's policy, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, and the Geneva Conference of 1954. President Johnson said, “For 10 years three American presidents – President Eisenhower, President President Kennedy and your current president – ​​and the American people have been actively concerned about threats to the peace and security of the people of Southeast Asia from the communist government of North Vietnam.” President Harry Truman authorized economic and military aid to the French as they fought to regain control of Laos and Cambodia along with Vietnam. The United States refused to accept the agreement made by the French to create communist North and South Vietnam. President Eisenhower sent military advisors to train the South Vietnamese army and the CIA to wage psychological warfare against the North . the communist guerrilla war in South Vietnam. On September 2, 1963, in an interview, Kennedy said: "We must send our men as advisors, but they must win, the people of Vietnam against the communists, we are ready to continue to assist them" . After Kennedy's assassination, Lyndon Johns...... middle of paper ......n was the one who took the blame for the war, while Truman and Eisenhower emerged “unscathed”. Stephen E. Ambrose, however, thinks differently. He said that "One of Ike's greatest achievements was staying out of Vietnam...". He goes on to say that his "stubborn military reasoning" kept them out of the war during his presidency. Cuddy's essay also points out that it may have been Johnson's "flawed personality and key policy decisions" that Americanized the war. Given what we know about how Johnson handled the war, this observation may be true. Cuddy goes on to say that Eisenhower had a clear break from the war with "Ho Chi Minh's forces destroying French power at Diem Biem Phu." In any case, America entered the war. Some thoughts and strategies may not have been thought through as they should, but it's history and you can't change it now.